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The Other Parent: A Memoir of Alan Nunn May
Paul Broder is a geneticist and former professor of applied molecular biology. His stepfather was Alan Nunn May, who just so happens to have been a convicted atomic spy. When Alan died in 2003 he left two volumes of an unpublished memoir that he wrote some 50 years after his foray into espionage. Paul used extracts from this, along with letters and newly released MI5 files to write The Other Parent - being his biological father, Engelbert Broder.
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